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Gender Studies 102 POWER (Fall 2023)
Prof. JHJ Han
Quiz 1
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The following questions (and multiple choice answers) will appear in a di
ff
erent order online.
All questions are worth 0.5 points. Maximum score for the quiz is 10 out 10. (10% of final grade.)
1.
In scenes we watched from
Six Feet Under
(2001-2005) and
Unbelievable
(2019),
mobilities are coded as linear progress, and
as positive expressions of women’s
empowerment and individual freedom.
o
True
o
False
2.
According to bell hooks (1984), women
would never exercise power in the same
manner as men when they assume positions
of power. She believed that because women
have historically never had social and
political power, the world would inevitably
look di
ff
erent with women in power.
o
True
o
False
3.
Poststructuralists believe in studying both
the text and the systems of knowledge that
produced that text. They interrogate
cultural assumptions and broader power
relations that constitute truth or
experience.
o
True
o
False
4.
What is the crux of Tressie McMillan
Cottom’s argument in “Having It All Is Not a
Feminist Theory of Change” (2017)?
o
Structural conditions inhibit women from
realizing their full economic potential.
Younger generations continue to struggle
valiantly to achieve “work life balance”
between marriage, motherhood, and
their professional ambitions.
o
Like “trickle-down economics,” a
problematic ideology that assumes that
wealth for a powerful few will trickle
down to improve the prosperity of
everyone below, trickle-down feminism
wrongly assumes that better options and
more power for elite white women will
take care of the interests of everyone
else.
o
Women must learn to speak up and “act
like a man” to be taken seriously.
o
Diversity and inclusion are part of a
feminist theory of change known as “big-
tent feminism,” which makes it possible
to imagine for
all
women to have it all,
not just a select few.
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5.
In class we watched a short video of an epic
performance by a celebrity (2013) and a
spoof video from Gaza that o
ff
ered a
critique. Which of the following best
captures what this comparison highlights
about the politics of mobility?
o
Mobility does not “just happen” by
willpower. Sociopolitical conditions and
infrastructure matter a great deal.
o
Preparation and teamwork involved in
mobility rarely get the credit they
deserve.
o
It takes incredible athleticism, training,
and mental focus to perform stunts like
this or drive such ginormous vehicles
with control and precision.
o
What’s with boys and cars?
6.
Michel Foucault
critiques
something he
called a “juridico-discursive” model of
power, which sees power as:
o
a possession held by individuals or
classes
o
rising from the bottom or grassroots
o
primarily positive and productive in its
exercise
o
emanating from multiple sites and
sources
7.
Benefits of travel have been recognized
universally throughout history and across
geography. As Caren Kaplan argues in her
afterword to
Mobile Desire
(2015)
,
anyone
can find ways to overcome impediments to
mobility and venture beyond their home,
community, and borders if the desire is
strong enough and they try really, really
hard.
o
True
o
False
8.
In lecture in Week 1, Prof. Han referred to
the following excerpt from Alexis Pauline
Gumbs and Julia Roxanne Wallace’s
“Something else to be” (2016):
“We are black and queer, so our histories of
travel are not only voluntary but also
compelled and circumscribed by violence,
hate, and inequality. We hold the legacies of
people on the run. We come from travelers
who did not choose their journey to this
continent. We come from travelers who dare
not run out of gas because segregation and
racial hatred in the South meant they could
not stop without risking their lives. We come
from travelers who were pushed o
ff
their
land with the thread of lynching and the
sanction of law. We come from travelers
whose neighborhoods got trampled by new
highway plans. We come from travelers who
were kicked out of their homes for daring to
love across boundaries.”
So what? Choose the BEST takeaway from
this quote.
o
We must recognize the unique and
extraordinary circumstances under which
black and queer folks travel.
o
We should really not travel because it's
always involuntary and compelled
through violence.
o
This passage is a nod to Audre Lorde’s
poem, “A Litany for Survival,” in which
she reminds us that fear is normal but
refusal and continuing survival show that
complete and total subjugation is an
impossibility.
o
It is unfortunate that racial violence and
structures of injustice have ruined what
could otherwise have been wonderful
and positive travel experiences.
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9.
In the video, "Marca Peru" (2012), the
youthful self from the past says to the older
self in the future: "Remember when we were
travelers, not tourists?" What is NOT true
about this distinction?
o
Travelers in the video are depicted as
adventurous and active whereas tourists
are seen as meek and passive. In this
logic, to travel is to overcome the
mundane and the routine in everyday
life.
o
The video suggests that the most
rewarding aspect of travel is self-
reflection and self-discovery, something
that is best achieved on a solo trip.
o
This distinction reflects a tendency to
center and privilege an agentic subject of
mobility.
o
The video suggests travel would be best
enjoyed while we are young.
10. Think about what Ta-Nehisi Coates says in
the short video from
The Atlantic
, “Creative
Breakthroughs” (2013). Which of the
following is NOT something he suggests?
o
Perseverance is key to writing.
Perseverance. It’s the first thing I say to
any young person who wants to talk
about writing.
o
Consider the entire process of writing to
be about chasing success, no matter how
small. Try to forget about failures. Writing
is mostly about figuring out what works
and ignoring the rest.
o
Breakthroughs come from putting an
inordinate amount of pressure on
yourself, seeing what you can take and
hoping you can grow some new muscles.
o
Writing is an act of courage. It’s almost an
act of physical courage.
11. Cordelia Freeman in her 2020 article defines
“abortion mobilities” as the movement and
fixity of people and things that shape
abortion access, using the term “viapolitics”
to center vehicles, roads, and routes in
theorizing spaces of migration. In arguing
that diverse abortion journeys and
experiences are dictated by myriad factors
such as class, citizenship, ethnicity, and
cultural context, Freeman draws attention
to how the journey, the vehicles, and the
infrastructure of movement all become
entangled with relations of power,
knowledge, and resistance.
o
True
o
False
12. Travel has a long history that is intertwined
with empire, imperialist desires, and
colonial practices, which is precisely why we
need to think critically about power,
mobility, and knowledge. Which of the
following is NOT an example discussed thus
far in lecture (Weeks 1-3)?
o
Family separation and indefinite
detention of children at the US-Mexico
border
o
Edward Said’s idea that Orientalist
writings and ideologies perpetuate views
of Middle Eastern people as inferior,
subservient, and in need of saving—or
annihilating.
o
World maps that diminish the size and
importance of the African continent
o
World maps that show the northern
hemisphere on top
o
History of disciplines like anthropology
and geography
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13. A focus on agency enables us to see that in
the face of dominant power and discourses,
subordinated and marginalized groups and
individuals are not passive recipients,
victims, or mere captives of dominant
discourses. Agency refers to this capacity to
negotiate with power in whatever form,
which can include not only opposition and
resistance but also complicity, compromise,
and deviance.
o
True
o
False
14. Hershini Bhana Young in her keyword essay
recounts the story of Tryntije of Madagascar
to urge us to prioritize the intentional and
volitional acts of capable individuals as the
most significant manifestation of agency.
o
True
o
False
15. Who said, “Power is the ability to not just to
tell the story of another person, but to make
it the definitive story of that person”? (Hint:
mentioned in lecture on Tue 10/17)
o
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
o
Judith Butler
o
Edward Said
o
Michel Foucault
16. Who said, “The question is not simply about
who
travels, but
when, how, and
under what
circumstances
?”? (Hint: mentioned in lecture
and article by Sheller)
o
Avtar Brah
o
Caren Kaplan
o
Eleana Shih
o
Tressie McMillan Cottom
17. Which of the following is NOT a form of
resistance mentioned in Brenda Child's
"Runaway Boys, Resistant Girls" (1996)?
o
Urging international solidarity
o
Smashing light fixtures, cutting o
ff
electricity
o
Stealing food, looting the food supply
o
Ringing the school bell
18. There is no single tourist gaze as such. The
tourist gaze has changed and developed in
diverse historical periods, and it has been
constructed, modified, and reinforced over
time.
o
True
o
False
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19. Gender Studies 102 student Qi Li wrote in
her discussion post that bell hooks
"discusses the need to address hierarchies
and divisions within the feminist
movement,” and that hooks “critiques the
tendency of some feminists to replicate
oppressive structures within their own
groups, particularly along racial and class
lines." What then does hooks suggest ,
according to Li?
o
Hooks calls for an inclusive feminism that
welcomes perspectives and experiences
from diverse backgrounds to challenge
traditional power structures.
o
Hooks emphasizes intersectionality, or
the idea that power should be analyzed
within the context of multiple
intersecting identities, including race,
class, and gender.
o
Hooks argues that the feminist
movement must address the power
dynamics faced by women of color and
working-class women.
o
Hooks emphasizes the need to prioritize
and focus on unique and distinct traits of
each struggle without getting caught up
on their interconnectedness.
20. Discussing the scene from
Unbelievable
we
watched in class, Gender Studies 102
student Allena Shadan focused on the
protagonist’s sense of pride as a palpable
and relatable feeling of mobility. What is this
pride about, according to Shadan?
o
Being able to leave behind a violent or
harmful situation to start a new chapter
o
Creating social change and new
opportunities for upward mobility
o
Learning to drive and exercising
automobility
o
Knowing the clearcut di
ff
erence between
liberation and coercion operating in
mobility